Jessica Sanders

Manhattan galleries continue to migrate east. Case in point: KANSAS, which has spent several years in Tribeca on Franklin Street, will start making the move this summer to 210 Rivington Street. The Lower East Side is known for its emerging galleries, home-grown boutiques, dumplings—and some artists still live and work there. Tribeca, on the other hand, is where celebrities and their pooches vie for sidewalk space among million-dollar apartments.

Jessica Sanders and Ryan Estep make objects that are kind of weird, like they might be alive. Maybe it’s just the materials: Sanders uses a lot of gooey wax, furry scraps, and other things that share some human characteristics. We wanted to know more about that, and what’s up with their relationship to net artists. Here’s what Jessica told us.